Strategies to support quality-based purchasing
Subtitle: a review of the evidence
By: prepared for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ; prepared by Stanford-University of California San Francisco Evidence-based Practice Center ; principal investigator, R. Adams Dudley ... [et al.].
Contributors: United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.; Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center.
Series: AHRQ publication -- no. 04-0057; Technical review -- no. 10; Technical review (United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) -- no. 10.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rockville, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9781587631566
Subjects: Health Benefit Plans, Employee -- economics -- United States -- Review; Group Purchasing -- organization & administration -- United States -- Review; Outcome Assessment (Health Care) -- United States -- Review; Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States -- Review; Reimbursement, Incentive -- organization & administration -- United States -- Review; Medical care -- Purchasing -- United States -- Evaluation; Medical care -- Quality control; Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Purchasing -- United States -- Evaluation; Performance awards; Outcome assessment (Medical care) -- Research -- United States; Bibliometrics
Genres: Review.
Notes: "July 2004."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-72).

Also available online.

Contract no. 290-02-0017

Mode of access: Internet from the AHRQ web site. Address as of 6/27/06: http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/qbpurch/qbpurch.pdf; current access available via PURL.